April — sept. 1858.] Proceedings. ■ 153 



From the Chief Secretary. 



Memorandum on the Pauchontee or Indian Gutta Tree, by Dr. 

 H. F. Cleghorn. 



Translation of Dr. W. C. Maclean's Hindustani paper on Small 

 Pox, by Dr. J. Shortt. 



From the Author. 



Hir et Ranjhan, Legende de Penjab, par Monsieur Garcin de 

 Tassy. 



jit a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite- 

 rary Society, and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society held 

 at the Club House, on Thursday the \2>th May 1858, at f past 

 6 o'clock, p. M, 



Present. 



The Hon'ble Walter Elliott, Esq., Chairman. 

 E. Maltby, Esq. W. C. Maclean, Esq., m. d. 



K. Burgass, Esq. M. Norman, Esq. 



Captain G. Winscom. W. J. Wilson, Esq., /Secretary. 



H. B. Montgomery, Esq.,M. r>. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting the usual monthly state- 

 ment of the Society's Funds prepared up to the 13th Instant. 



Resolved, that the foregoing statement is satisfactory and be 

 passed. 



Read the following Extract from Minutes of Consultation, 

 No. 539. 



Public Department. 

 Extract from the Minutes of Consultation under date the 6th 

 May 1858. 



Read the following letter from W. J. Wilson, Esq., Secretary to 

 the Madras Literary Society, to the Chief Secretary to Government, 

 Fort Saint George, dated 1st May, 1858. 



Sir, — -I am directed by the Chairman and Managing Committee 

 of the Madras Literary Society to forward an Extract from a letter 

 to the address of the Honorable Mr. Elliot, from the Messrs. Schla- 

 gentweit of Berlin, and to say, that they consider the proposition 

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